46.6% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.5%
- 2016: 47.2%
- 2021: 46.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hornsby · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Hornsby
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Much higher proportions of residents have moved recently in Hornsby compared to most similar areas. Nearly half of the population has changed homes in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This high mobility is matched by a strong influx of people moving here from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.6% of people moved home in the last five years, a figure that is well above both the New South Wales rate of 39.9% and the Australian average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 18.0% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 14.5%.
18.0% ▼ -27.5%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Hornsby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11943/hornsby/topic/mobility-location